This is a play, sometimes filmed, in the form of a speech dance, to become a statement. It is a performance to be inhabited by you the viewer(s). I am asking you to be my ground or my stuffed animals. There are no passive viewers and the work is realized anew within each intimate setting
1. BEGIN: “Y1 settles on top”
2. EVERYTHING BEGINS AND ENDS IN BED: “Waking the body before the brain”
3. DELAUNAY FIGURE GROUND: “This relationship between canonized painting and the craft arts”
Pile Bed Image #1: Sonia Delaunay and two friends in Robert Delaunay’s studio, rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris 1924, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
4. PUBLIC: “Mama?”
5. ON MOTHERING AND SCULPTURE: “How does one get density?”
6. TRINITY: “Between you me and who I think you are”
7. REGARDING MY LIFE: “I say maybe not for you, but for me it needs to be named”
LISTENING TO THE MUSIC (a pause between 7+8)
8. MINIMALISM AND DANCE: “And the plinth was tipped over”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3051368.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A6980bf9b006a82686f166ca9d79588c0
9. THOUGHT DANCE FOR YVONNE: “To not question of judgment of pace is to have trust”
Pile Bed Image #2: Parts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainer, March 1965, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Photo: Peter Moore
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/arts/dance/yvonne-rainer-parts-of-some-sextets-performa.html
10. INERTIA: “It is not inertia, it is a moment held, quivering”
11. THE WRONG THING: “It is in the courage to do the wrong thing that I find a sense of life return to myself”
12. DREAMING AND DREAMED: “I don’t sleep with her anymore”
Pile Bed Image #3: DETAIL OF L’Atelier du peintre, Allegorie reelle determinant une phase de sept annees de ma vie artistique et morale, Gustav Courbet, 1855
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_as_the_Allegory_of_Painting
13. EMANATION AND REFLECTION: “Look behind you by moving your upper torso so far forward that it folds over”
14. DRAG: “The question of not dressing in drag is too painful to consider”
15. CONTEXT LOZANO: “‘ALL VERBS’”
Pile Bed Image #4: Richard Serra, Verb List (1967 - 1968)
https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/5288-lee-lozano-drawings-paintings
Pile Bed Image #5: Lee Lozano, Titles of Paintings (All Verbs) (1964 - 1967)
16. EILEEN: “We must mistrust merely pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct”
17. DANCE: “Your entire stomach area stretches - breathe deeply”
18. OBJECTS: “Objects bring things back in ways nothing else ever can”
19. VOICE: “As soon as the negative voice in your head starts up go to sleep”
20. COMIC RELIEF: “My soul is caught between worlds”
21. SLAP MY BUTT: “and this playful urge overtakes me”
22. FROZEN TABLEAU: “You’re my sister”
23. I AM A BODY: “This idea that we have all this choice, but maybe we don’t actually”
Pile Bed Image #6: Yellow wallpaper pattern_
Pile Bed Image #7: Le Corbusier murals grafittied onto the walls in four areas of Eileen Gray’s E1027 house
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/arts/design/The-Tortured-History-of-Eileen-Grays-Modern-Gem.html
24. GUT: “What I thought would happen is colliding with what is happening now”
25. SOUL: “To feel the thick surface of this life, between thick fingers passing into infinity”
26. A SATURDAY MORNING: “existentialism. What brings it on?”
27. HEAD IN HOLE: “I don’t want mucky”
28. NIGHT: “Chicken claw rearing its head in my left foot”
29. PERIOD I: “I feel the slog, the sloth in the brown I can’t tug”
30. PERIOD II: “Relax- no stress in my shoulders”
31. GAZING AND GRAZING: “Looking down to see the sky, looking down to see oneself”
32. THOUGHTS and GRAVITY: “Y8 enters through it and leans in the door-frame”
33. BED: “Sinking into the warm bed covers”